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Burbank, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Stickney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60459. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. 29,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Burbank within Cook County

Population over time

3 figures

Burbank grew from 28,462 to 29,439 between 1980 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
198028,462
201028,925
202029,439+514 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Burbank in 2005, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burbank: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dolese and Shepard Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Silbrico Expanded Perilite PlantPerliteProducer
Worth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

32 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burbank in 32 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 4 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBurbank$1,000Significant tree damage was reported with two to three foot diameter trees uprooted and blown down. Some of the trees fell onto houses. Minor sign damage was reported to a business on 95th Street.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A measured wind gust to 72 mph was reported in Burbank.
April 2025FloodBurbank-A few reports of street flooding were received from Oak Lawn and yard flooding was reported in Burbank.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A large tree limb had fallen onto parked cars at 89th Pl and Melvina Ave in Oak Lawn.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A tree was blown down onto a garage.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 70 mph was measured.
February 2024HailBurbank-A Cooperative observer reported 1 hail fell in Burbank from 8:30 to 8:35 PM CST. They also noted a 41 mph peak wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 60 mph was measured.
July 2024Heavy RainBurbank-Measured rainfall of 0.80 inches was reported in 10 minutes.
July 2024Heavy RainBurbank-Measured rainfall of 1.00 inches was reported in 16 minutes.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A pine tree was uprooted on S 55th Ave near W 89th St in Burbank. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 60 mph was measured in Burbank.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 60 mph was measured in Burbank.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 65 mph was measured in Burbank.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBurbank-Tree limbs were blown down.
May 2020Heavy RainBurbank-Rainfall of 1.10 inches was measured in 10 minutes.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBurbank-Wind gusts to 65 mph were measured.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 65 mph was measured in Burbank.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBurbank-Trees were uprooted or snapped and roof damage was reported.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindBurbank-A wind gust to 66 mph was measured in Burbank.
August 2019Heavy RainBurbank-Rainfall of 1.01 inches was measured in 15 minutes.
May 2019Heavy RainBurbank-Storm total rainfall of 2.56 inches was measured.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBurbank-Widespread tree damage was reported near 90th Street and Ridgeland Avenue. A flag pole was snapped off.
June 2008HailBurbank-Pea to penny size hail was reported in Burbank.
May 2004HailBurbank-Reported at the intersection of 87th Street and Cicero Avenue.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBurbank-Large tree limbs, trees, power line and power poles were knocked down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBurbank-no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBurbank-no account filed
April 2020HailBurbank-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBurbank-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBurbank-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBurbank-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bridgeview1.7 miles24
Oak Lawn2.0 miles27
Chicago Ridge2.2 miles27
Bedford Park2.3 miles24
Hickory Hills2.5 miles27
Hometown2.5 miles25
Justice3.2 miles27
Worth3.2 miles27

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurbankAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q578150The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422262. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.